Finally got a chance to watch I Am Trying to Break Your Heart this evening. Very good. Obviously, the music is great but I also liked the interviews with the writer from Rolling Stone. Closing quote: “[The record lable] hated the album so much they paid for it twice.” The bonus DVD has some good live performances.
Month: April 2003
K-Logging: Supporting KM with Web Logs. CRM Assist Apr 9 2003 2:16PM ET [Moreover – Knowledge management news]
Good k-logging overview. A couple of new tools I had never heard of.
How to Hook Up Your Network
How to Hook Up Your Network. Building your own wireless network isn’t complicated. All it takes is a broadband connection, a few hundred dollars and a willingness to pull the plugs. By Paul Boutin for Wired magazine. [Wired News]
For all my co-workers and pals who ask for advice on their home WiFi network (and for my future reference).
IBM Tools Transform Legacy Apps. IBM’s Enterprise Modernization Initiative will provide new tools for developers to transform legacy applications into Web services. [Technology News from eWEEK and Ziff Davis]
Could be handy for exposing proprietary legacy apps to portals.
IBM Gives Developers a Taste of XQuery
IBM Gives Developers a Taste of XQuery. IBM is making available a downloadable prototype of the developing XQuery standard for developers and customers to tinker with. [Technology News from eWEEK and Ziff Davis]
IBM Content Management & Portal conference:
Gartner papers on ECM/WCM
Here are some Gartner white papers related to ECM/WCM. Unless covered by the umbrella ECM category, I have not specifically included Document Management topics in this list. You will need a Gartner subscription to read these papers.
Generic ECM/WCM
Title: Management Update: What You Should Know About Enterprise Content Management
Author(s): Mark Gilbert Debra Logan Karen Shegda Garth Landers Kenneth Chin
Last Revision Date: 24 Jul 2002
Summary:
Content management is a hot technology area for enabling efficient Web sites and workplaces. Gartner discusses how enterprises can sort through the content management puzzle and save money by buying only what they need.
http://www3.gartner.com/DisplayDocument?id=365057
Title: From Enterprise Content Management to SES and Beyond
Author(s): Mark Gilbert Lou Latham
Last Revision Date: 28 Feb 2003
Summary:
Enterprises are demanding flexible, content-based infrastructures for greater business productivity. The smart enterprise suite represents the natural evolution of content management, portals and collaboration.
http://www3.gartner.com/DisplayDocument?id=387355
Title: Building a Web Content Management Request for Proposal
Author(s): Lou Latham Mark Gilbert Tom Berg
Last Revision Date: 27 Sep 2002
Summary:
This Strategic Analysis Report provides guidelines for enterprises seeking to construct a request for proposal for Web content management software and services.
http://www3.gartner.com/DisplayDocument?id=371869
Title: The 2002 Web Content Management Magic Quadrant
Author(s): Mark Gilbert Lou Latham
Last Revision Date: 06 Aug 2002
Summary:
The Gartner Web content management Magic Quadrant still has three leaders, but the number of vendors has shrunk in 2002. The remaining vendors are striving to differentiate themselves as WCM becomes more ubiquitous.
http://www3.gartner.com/DisplayDocument?id=365839
Title: Web Content Management Key Issues for 2003
Author(s): Mark Gilbert Lou Latham
Last Revision Date: 14 Feb 2003
Summary:
WCM has evolved considerably since 2000. Growth and turmoil in the market and underlying technologies have led the Key Issues for 2003 to focus on making the technology more ubiquitous through better integration and licensing.
http://www3.gartner.com/DisplayDocument?id=386056
Vendor-Specific
Title: Documentum 5 Content Management Software
Author(s): Karen Shegda
Last Revision Date: 12 Feb 2003
Summary:
Documentum 5 is a platform for building document and content management solutions. Documentum also markets a series of focused product packages–Editions–that are built on the Documentum 5 platform.
http://www3.gartner.com/DisplayDocument?id=307407
Title: IBM Content Manager
Author(s): Karen Shegda
Last Revision Date: 05 Aug 2002
Summary:
An integrated document management product, IBM Content Manager lets organizations capture, store, manage and distribute all forms of digital content, including scanned paper documents and rich media.
http://www3.gartner.com/DisplayDocument?id=308444
Here’s a book someone asked me about. I thought I had posted it recently but I couldn’t find it.
Managing Enterprise Content: A Unified Content Strategy
by Ann Rockley, Pamela Kostur, Steve Manning
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0735713065/102-6681228-5393726
I have not read it but here‘s a review.
Blog as backup brain
Thinking in public – knowledge management with a small k. I started experimenting with weblogs and precursors to weblogs several years ago and began to publish a public weblog about 18 months ago. I’ve found the notion of weblog as backup brain to be a powerful metaphor for finding the value of weblogs to the work of an individual knowledge worker within an organization.
One of the central things that occurs with this strategy is that you have to start learning how to think in public. That certainly can feel like a risky thing to do. In some organizational settings it might well be risky. But I’m increasingly convinced that developing that skill will be an important aspect of what organizations must learn to do to survive and thrive in today’s world. [McGee’s Musings]
Creating a Knowledge Sharing Culture. Some time ago, I wrote an e-mail to a Knowledge Manager in a large organization giving him some advise on how I thought he could help create a ‘knowledge sharing culture’ in his organization. I thought I’d share it. [Gurteen Knowledge-Log]